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color:#1F497D'>Dear Asmus,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thank you for getting back. We would request for IP member who
could share the technical view point on how the root zone motivated conservatism
and other principles will apply on variant sets (from IP’s perspective), and
give early feedback by identifying the challenging cases from among the variant
sets identified by the Arabic GP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards,<br>
Sarmad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Asmus Freytag [mailto:asmusf@ix.netcom.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Sarmad Hussain; LGR@icann.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Possible IP participation at the TF-AIDN meeting in Istanbul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"'>Dear
Sarmad,<br>
<br>
ICANN staff has forwarded a request sent by you on behalf of TF-AIDN for
interaction with the Integration Panel at the upcoming TF-AIDN meeting at
Istanbul.<br>
<br>
We have discussed this among the Integration Panel members and with staff and
we do not quite know how best to respond to this request.<br>
<br>
For one, some of our members are absent this week and not reachable for
discussion. Others are not available during the dates of your meeting. The
Integration Panel also has its own F2F meeting scheduled the weekend before in
Los Angeles, making for rather difficult travel schedule even for those members
who would otherwise be available.<br>
<br>
Your request mentioned that TF-AIDN felt that expertise in "Arabic and
DNS" would be useful, but the material forwarded to us by staff did not
contain any further specifics on the issues to be covered or the objectives
that you would like to achieve by such a meeting.<br>
<br>
By its nature, the expert members of the Integration Panel were selected to
have expertise that is broadly applicable across all scripts; as is
commensurate with the role of panel in integrating the many LGRs produced by
local Generation Panels, whose members encompass individuals with strong
linguistic background and expertise in the subject script.<br>
<br>
For specific Arabic expertise, we can recommend Tom Milo as advisor. The
integration panel has used him as advisor on Arabic matters; his expertise as
designer of Arabic typesetting and font technology, we found, gives him a
uniquely valuable perspective. (If he were to attend it would be as advisor to
the GP and not as representative of the IP.)<br>
<br>
As for DNS expertise, it would help us if we could better understand the likely
concerns and issues you expect to resolve in the session.<br>
<br>
A./<br>
<br>
Asmus Freytag<br>
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